Demonstrators pose with fake rupee notes signifying corruption during a rally in Hyderabad, India, on August 17, 2011.

Transparency International has released their 2012 Corruption Perception Index, their annual look at public sector corruption. Of the 176 countries and territories on the list, two-thirds had a serious corruption problem.

“Many of the countries where citizens challenged their leaders to stop corruption–from the Middle East to Asia to Europe–have seen their positions in the index stagnate or worsen,” the report said.

The United States ranked 19th, behind Canada, Germany and Singapore. China ranked 80th, four ranks ahead of India, which pars with the European Union’s worst performer Greece. Russia ranked a distant 133rd. The cleanest countries were in Scandinavia. Here’s a look at the countries they deemed most corrupt:

The US ranked 19th? Are you kidding, Obama and his green scam machine of 100 billion dollar solar companies that brought him from a two bit community organizer in Chicago to one of the richest men on the planet in 4 years, that alone should rank in the top 5. So with Obama's corruption, the US should be number 1, unless we're counting Obama's residency as Kenya.

@PatDurkin are you telling me that Alcoa is no longer a brand name? It's funny, it used to be. What else used to be is that liberals would never come out like this, in broad day light, as they used to just cower in bacteria laden public restrooms like pedophiles awaiting their victims, well, in this case, their conservative adversaries. What hasn't changed is they still use animal icons or cartoon characters to represent that cowering side of them ....